Well its official, one Fan Cave contest has been closed. 16 countries are going to be competing for the World Baseball Classic title again and this time there will be 16 people in the Fan Cave competing to be the ultimate cave dweller. This time as a country gets eliminated so will the person representing that country. Here's hoping team USA does really well!
As much as I would love to be in the regular MLB Fan Cave I would also love to be a part of the World Baseball Classic Edition. I know its an even bigger long shot than it is to get in the regular Fan Cave but I'm going for it because this is what I am meant to be doing!!
In both my essay and my video I talked about how I want to bring baseball back to America. Baseball for a long time has been known as our past time, but it seems like everyone is starting forget that baseball exists here. ESPN spends more time talking about football than any other sport. Even when its in the off season. Most of the time the only thing you will hear about baseball is when theres a big trade or someone has a big game. Nothing else changes.
I have ESPN's Score Center on my phone and 90% of the time the alerts are about football and or hockey. I had to turn the breaking news alerts off because I was so sick of getting those alerts! One of my goals is getting baseball back into the hearts of America. America is slowly forgetting about our past time and we need to find ways to bring new people to baseball.
I joke a lot that I converted one of my friends to being a baseball fan. She never really hated baseball but she never really watched it. She went to most all of the games this summer with me and because of that she became a Cardinal fan! I really think that if we could get more Americans to go to games and make games more enjoyable we could bring baseball back. Maybe it would help if we could lower ticket prices too... That would definitely help...
The other part of my application and video was talking about the Olympics. My family and I were heartbroken when we found out that baseball and softball were taken out of the Olympics this year. We couldn't understand why it was removed. They claim it was because the US dominated every four years but really if thats the truth, basketball should be removed! USA wins like every Olympics! Besides in baseball USA does well but we don't win every year. We won softball more times than we won baseball but whatever.
So if I were to make the MLB Fan Cave World Baseball Classic edition, my one goal is to help promote baseball around our country. I would help push baseball into ESPN and make sure it was widely noticed. Especially since all three rounds of the Classic are gonna be played on our soil!! Even the championship round is gonna be played here! It will be played in the home of the World Series Champions parks! Yeah I'm a little sad its San Francisco Giants name, but I'm glad we get to be a part of the Classic on our soil.
If you would like to see this happen, keep thinking good thoughts for me! I have been praying, working, tweeting and Facebooking so I can make one of these dreams come true. I really think these ideas are really good for the USA and our WBC team, but if you have any thoughts or helpful ideas please let me know! I'm open to suggestions! Facebook or Tweet me! Also please don't forget to keep tweeting #EAC4Cave!!
~Emily
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